I think a big part of these crazes is that people just do not understand the value of their own time. There is no way that the dudes assaulting people at Target are making enough money doing this to account for all of the time and effort they are losing. Maybe with the pandemic, more people were out of work so the combination of desperation + free time compounded the issue.
I think a big part of these crazes is that people just do not understand the value of their own time. There is no way that the dudes assaulting people at Target are making enough money doing this to account for all of the time and effort they are losing. Maybe with the pandemic, more people were out of work so the combination of desperation + free time compounded the issue.
I totally agree. Just this weekend I was looking through that big trove of baseball cards, and that voice trained into my head was saying "gee, I wonder if any of these are worth anything?" -- the sort of thing we were weaned on thinking about in the '80s and '90s thanks to stories of previous generations sticking a priceless Mickey Mantle rookie card between their bicycle spokes -- and then I realized a) there's absolutely no way it would be worth my time to figure that out and b) they're just baseball cards, enjoy them for what they are
I think a big part of these crazes is that people just do not understand the value of their own time. There is no way that the dudes assaulting people at Target are making enough money doing this to account for all of the time and effort they are losing. Maybe with the pandemic, more people were out of work so the combination of desperation + free time compounded the issue.
I totally agree. Just this weekend I was looking through that big trove of baseball cards, and that voice trained into my head was saying "gee, I wonder if any of these are worth anything?" -- the sort of thing we were weaned on thinking about in the '80s and '90s thanks to stories of previous generations sticking a priceless Mickey Mantle rookie card between their bicycle spokes -- and then I realized a) there's absolutely no way it would be worth my time to figure that out and b) they're just baseball cards, enjoy them for what they are